Black Coffee
A Novel
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
“I may be a supersoldier but I sure as hell ain’t no Superwoman. Yes, it’s true my hand is steady, I have the eye of a marksman, and I can hit a moving target dead center at four hundred meters, but when it comes to making clever love decisions, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. While I look pretty lofty in my spit-shined combat boots and razor-sharp battle dress uniform, like a lot of young sisters from the ’hood, I’ve taken a few wrong turns down the back alleys of life.”
Meet Sergeant Sanderella Coffee, who has just completed a three-year overseas tour and is now reporting to a military installation in Virginia. She is a single mother whose goal is to attend the Army’s prestigious Officer Candidate School, which will guarantee a better life for her and her children.
Sandie meets a man who matches her ambition and determination step for step in the form of Drill Sergeant Romulus Caesar, who literally marches into her life and turns it upside down. They fall in love, and Rom is everything Sandie could want—supportive, confident, self-reliant—but he’s also married. Because of the military’s tough policy on fraternization and adultery, Sandie could find her carefully orchestrated career slipping away like sand in a breeze.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rough, ready and thoroughly raunchy, this previously self-published military romance puts a literal spin on the war between the sexes. Sparks fly when sergeants Sanderella Coffee and Romulus Caesar, two black soldiers rising through the ranks in the military, first meet in Virginia, where Sandie is training to apply to Officer Candidate School. Romulus is an unhappily married drill sergeant who dreams of escaping his stale marriage, but is held back by the love and responsibility he feels for his twin sons. Sandie is a single mom with three children, determined to advance her military career, battling sexism and self-doubt with her quick wit and urban wisdom. Their romance is a rocky one from the beginning because of the army's tough policy on fraternization (that Romulus is cheating on his wife to be with Sandie doesn't help), but theirs is a meeting of body and soul, and even army disapproval can't keep them apart. They enjoy great sex, which the author describes in graphic detail, and they both share the same no-nonsense outlook on life. Price-Thompson's inventive, colloquial prose gives the novel swing and cadence, though she sometimes veers into parody ("Antoine was a cute dark-chocolate 'Bama slammer, my afternoon delight and midnight snack, my ever-ready Freddie"), and her eyes-wide-open perspective on army life and love is refreshing. As the title suggests, this is not a light-hearted, sweet-talking love story, but an energizing slice of ultracontemporary romance. 5-city author tour.
